The news of Janey's incident made the local, state, and eventually the national news. It hit the national news wires after the half-assed local police...investigation accidentally found that this had been an organized plot involving several other students. Due to the political connections of some of the alleged participant's parents, the local police panicked and the FBI was called in. They used the excuse that this had been an attempted kidnapping.What the local police had uncovered was Janey's. I stored everything away in the RV, or in large plastic bins under the RV as appropriate. I then took a hot shower and relaxed with a nice cold Diet Coke. I cooked one of the porterhouse steaks with a baked potato for dinner, and then sat down with a scotch to do some more planning.It was already early June, and I wanted to get to Santa Fe and back before the annual monsoons arrived. At twenty miles a day the six-hundred-mile round trip would put me back at the RV in roughly thirty days, plus. ’ She poured cream from a carton into a pitcher and set it on the tray. ‘Right.’ The implications made Connie feel ill. You’re not pretty enough for Simon, her mother was saying. Better dress the part if you don’t want to lose him. ‘I think long dresses are back in style,’ Lydia went on. ‘And I’ve seen some lovely slacks and outfits in the stores. I know you don’t go in for short styles, and I understand.’ Connie, near tears, said nothing. She doesn’t know, Connie thought. She doesn’t know how. ”I spoke to all who were there. Fran came to the bedside and leaned down to kiss my lips. “Thanks for saving my ass again. You are one fearless motherfucker. There would be about four hundred dead little girls without your efforts. It’s going to be four to six months before you can be on duty again. The Agencies are going to argue over who has to pay you during your recovery.”It made me laugh, since I knew that Tom wasn’t going to take any shit from anyone on this.Chuck and Steve came to the.